From the article: "only four of 10 movies earn enough at the box office to recoup"(the money)"spent on producing and marketing a film"
Look, they're saying about box office. Now from the 60 minutes about internet movie "piracy":
"Fifty percent of the revenues for any movie come out of home video"
The quote from the first article gives the impression that most movies are not profitable. Does anyone also think they were manipulating numbers there?
I've always found people complaining they need to compile their code all again (wait a lot) when they make a small change on the code.
The advice here is to split your code in several files and use make. It'll just compile the (small) file you've changed, which takes much less time. Using gcc option -O0 also helps (when you don't care about the generated software performance).
It looks a no brainer advice but people still complain about that;-)
"I don't find that being really up on all the latest technology ever does me any good."
He might complies with the "Muq's law", I explain:
I don't like to upgrade my computer, for obvious reason$ and often I realize that I didn't need that much I upgraded.
So I made some analysis and realized, to a regular user, who just "types/browses/compiles once and while", that:
An upgrade just worths if your current processor's frequency is lower than the frequency of memory on the machine you're willing to upgrade
Processors upgrades don't worth very much, a processor 2 times faster in frequency than another doesn't means the same improvement in performance (the memory bottleneck remains). Some may put a benchmark of a very cpu intensive task and say it means, but for memory intensive operations like regular users operations are, it's far from it.
On the other hand if your processor frequency is lower than memory, dude you need an upgrade.
I tought about that while ago but didn't have a name for it, so know I officialy name it "Muq's law":-)
From the: I-want-to-know-everything-dept. Muq is from the brazilian slang "muquirana" (someone that doesn't like to spend/give his money). In "slang world" when a word may be considered offensive (it's regularly used that way), another word is created, an abreviation of it (so it loses its "sound effect"). So, to avoid that, and because it sounds better I abreviated to Muq (read muk), and then: "Muq's Law"
PS: I'm not sure the equivalence of the frequency is even. In fact I think it's 1x processor's versus 1.3x memory's, but let's let it even to simplify.
Re:AMD have been better than Intel for some time..
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the chances of a heatsink falling off are virtually nil
Don't know about the heatsink falling but I have a computer that works 24/7 and exactly every year I need to change the heatsink fan. And there's also bad installation, like a space between the heatsink an the processor.
It stays idle most of the time, so that's not a big thing (it don't heat very much), but it would be a big problem if it was a very used server.
Not to get picky but the AthlonXP and Athon are essentially the same core
IIRC AthlonXP has pre-fetch, Athlon doesn't
Turn the jammer on when you need it
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Turn the jammer just when you need it. When you hear someone on the theater talking on the phone turn the jammer on, that will end the conversation and the person go away from where you are to get a better signal.
there is nothing to stop anybody from implementing a superior version of Java
You can not call that Java because it's sun's trademark, and I don't think it will have the same popularity between java programmers if you call it names like J++ or C#
I've seen some comments about people greping the code themselves, so I must warn: Don't do that yourself! Downloading the code is illegal.
Downloading == copy. And the code is copyrighted. Altought you may find someone in a country which copyright laws don't cover computer software or something like that.
I think a problem in BT is the lack of compiled clients for linux. Phyton is big and an interpred code can eat a lot of cpu time specially when handlig several connections at a time. I've seen a c++ client for linux but it isn't developed anymore.
Another problem is bandwidth limitation not included in the software, you can use an external program like trickle (heavy) or the kernel, but that way it doesn't share bandwidth equally between users, it shares very bad indeed.
Other is that eventually I want to share my bandwidth but don't want to download the whole file (don't have time/space). I may use some trick (download a part of it and after that limit my download rate) but I don't think that's the best solution.
That doesn't resume it all, a hacker definition I like is "someone that can extract the maximum of a computer resource" (NYC hackers) and that involves not just coding but also using already avaible software and hacking hardware. And also there's the hackers who made the tcp/ip protocol (I think it was Richie) I don't think coding isn't a good definition to it either.
The article says that dorks go for robots.txt that's because that's an index of what are the supposed secret documents.
I think a better approach would be: 1) remove the links to all files that you don't want to delete but don't want to be indexed either 2) search google for: site:yourdomain.com To see if nothing important was indexed
But that's security by obscurity, someone with authorized access to it may make a link for it or some "directory listing" bug/misconfiguration may let anyone see it, so it's better authenticate the access.
About robots.txt, don't put secret stuff there, you usually put there files that are too heavy (and you don't want people downloading it, like mandrake.iso) or may difficult people ocassional searching for your bussiness find the pages that *you* want they find (like a possible client don't find information for the share holders)
I'm in Brazil, and I have some friends with machines like this. In fact it's a 400Mhz but I can't run it stable at that frequency anymore (no it's not the cooler maybe sh***y MoBo).
I used to run Mozilla 1.0.2 it worked fine and the only visible improvements I see on 1.6 beside the ones I mentioned it's that now it asks me to close a window with multiple tabs, a fancy icon to open a new window and a download manager (to delete the records that was making 1.0.2 slow). It's also a one year difference so I didn't expect much problems with 1.6.
And since everything else works fine I won't buy a new computer just because I can't run 1.6 smooth
After one our browsing slashdot it is using 55MB of RAM, I can't type on composer real time (I type and it show up few seconds later), it takes 8 seconds to open a new window and once you get a lot of registers on history/bookmarks/download manager performance sucks because parsing xml is very inefficient. My specs are: k6-2 266mhz, 128MB ram, pretty common around here.
I think there are two approaches for that, one I call "social" and another that's technical
The first uses statistics about how is the computer configuration of the possible consumers and try to make the software to fit that configurations (like reducing some default features) or just pretend it fit that minimum configuration (as we see on some OS boxes).
The other is testing the software against real machines configurations until the tester think it's fine playable.
But they don't say in what software environment they test it, so you may go to M$ Woe 98 (ram), configure the game to 320x240 16bit (onboard gpu) and still play it fine.
I used to believe that minimum requirements was the minimum you need to install a software until I saw a 486 16MB running Woe 98 (it took about two minutes just to show up the MS windows logo but it booted).
Another probably answer of why they don't, sell with Linux but with FreeDOS is that they need to offer little support or none at all. If you sell a computer with a software you need to support both, and supporting FreeDOS is much easier than Linux
I think that most of that computers will run MSWindows by companies that already have a windows license for their current computers and plan to trow their computers away. I've seen that: a company bougth 50 computers that came with XP and installed W2K on it
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From the article:
"only four of 10 movies earn enough at the box office to recoup"(the money)"spent on producing and marketing a film"
Look, they're saying about box office. Now from the 60 minutes about internet movie "piracy":
"Fifty percent of the revenues for any movie come out of home video"
The quote from the first article gives the impression that most movies are not profitable.
Does anyone also think they were manipulating numbers there?
I've always found people complaining they need to compile their code all again (wait a lot) when they make a small change on the code.
;-)
The advice here is to split your code in several files and use make. It'll just compile the (small) file you've changed, which takes much less time. Using gcc option -O0 also helps (when you don't care about the generated software performance).
It looks a no brainer advice but people still complain about that
"I don't find that being really up on all the latest technology ever does me any good."
:-)
He might complies with the "Muq's law", I explain:
I don't like to upgrade my computer, for obvious reason$ and often I realize that I didn't need that much I upgraded.
So I made some analysis and realized, to a regular user, who just "types/browses/compiles once and while", that:
An upgrade just worths if your current processor's frequency is lower than the frequency of memory on the machine you're willing to upgrade
Processors upgrades don't worth very much, a processor 2 times faster in frequency than another doesn't means the same improvement in performance (the memory bottleneck remains).
Some may put a benchmark of a very cpu intensive task and say it means, but for memory intensive operations like regular users operations are, it's far from it.
On the other hand if your processor frequency is lower than memory, dude you need an upgrade.
I tought about that while ago but didn't have a name for it, so know I officialy name it "Muq's law"
From the: I-want-to-know-everything-dept.
Muq is from the brazilian slang "muquirana" (someone that doesn't like to spend/give his money).
In "slang world" when a word may be considered offensive (it's regularly used that way), another word is created, an abreviation of it (so it loses its "sound effect").
So, to avoid that, and because it sounds better I abreviated to Muq (read muk), and then: "Muq's Law"
PS: I'm not sure the equivalence of the frequency is even. In fact I think it's 1x processor's versus 1.3x memory's, but let's let it even to simplify.
the chances of a heatsink falling off are virtually nil
Don't know about the heatsink falling but I have a computer that works 24/7 and exactly every year I need to change the heatsink fan.
And there's also bad installation, like a space between the heatsink an the processor.
It stays idle most of the time, so that's not a big thing (it don't heat very much), but it would be a big problem if it was a very used server.
Not to get picky but the AthlonXP and Athon are essentially the same core
IIRC AthlonXP has pre-fetch, Athlon doesn't
Turn the jammer just when you need it. When you hear someone on the theater talking on the phone turn the jammer on, that will end the conversation and the person go away from where you are to get a better signal.
there is nothing to stop anybody from implementing a superior version of Java
You can not call that Java because it's sun's trademark, and I don't think it will have the same popularity between java programmers if you call it names like J++ or C#
I've seen some comments about people greping the code themselves, so I must warn: Don't do that yourself! Downloading the code is illegal.
Downloading == copy. And the code is copyrighted. Altought you may find someone in a country which copyright laws don't cover computer software or something like that.
The index that's around says:
658114889 30915 files
that's 658MB, the size of a CD-ROM ?
What about the opposite:
Is there GPL code there?
Ask an auditing company to
diff NT4 2000 | grep -e yourcode
and get an answer.
I don't think they're playing SCO if they released just a part of it maybe but not the whole thing
Have you ever heard of gzip?
Old news RTF./
How hard is to click on the icon on the side of the article before posting a new article?
I think a problem in BT is the lack of compiled clients for linux. Phyton is big and an interpred code can eat a lot of cpu time specially when handlig several connections at a time. I've seen a c++ client for linux but it isn't developed anymore.
Another problem is bandwidth limitation not included in the software, you can use an external program like trickle (heavy) or the kernel, but that way it doesn't share bandwidth equally between users, it shares very bad indeed.
Other is that eventually I want to share my bandwidth but don't want to download the whole file (don't have time/space). I may use some trick (download a part of it and after that limit my download rate) but I don't think that's the best solution.
You don't need to delete all the site, just delete the article the professor thought offensive, or mod it troll :-)
That doesn't resume it all, a hacker definition I like is "someone that can extract the maximum of a computer resource" (NYC hackers) and that involves not just coding but also using already avaible software and hacking hardware.
And also there's the hackers who made the tcp/ip protocol (I think it was Richie) I don't think coding isn't a good definition to it either.
The article says that dorks go for robots.txt that's because that's an index of what are the supposed secret documents.
I think a better approach would be:
1) remove the links to all files that you don't want to delete but don't want to be indexed either
2) search google for: site:yourdomain.com
To see if nothing important was indexed
But that's security by obscurity, someone with authorized access to it may make a link for it or some "directory listing" bug/misconfiguration may let anyone see it, so it's better authenticate the access.
About robots.txt, don't put secret stuff there, you usually put there files that are too heavy (and you don't want people downloading it, like mandrake.iso) or may difficult people ocassional searching for your bussiness find the pages that *you* want they find (like a possible client don't find information for the share holders)
Professors could put fake answers for the homework on the internet and just wait for the cheaters to download it
They forget to mention projectors, you get a bigger image cheaper than plasma
I'm in Brazil, and I have some friends with machines like this. In fact it's a 400Mhz but I can't run it stable at that frequency anymore (no it's not the cooler maybe sh***y MoBo).
I used to run Mozilla 1.0.2 it worked fine and the only visible improvements I see on 1.6 beside the ones I mentioned it's that now it asks me to close a window with multiple tabs, a fancy icon to open a new window and a download manager (to delete the records that was making 1.0.2 slow). It's also a one year difference so I didn't expect much problems with 1.6.
And since everything else works fine I won't buy a new computer just because I can't run 1.6 smooth
After one our browsing slashdot it is using 55MB of RAM, I can't type on composer real time (I type and it show up few seconds later), it takes 8 seconds to open a new window and once you get a lot of registers on history/bookmarks/download manager performance sucks because parsing xml is very inefficient.
My specs are: k6-2 266mhz, 128MB ram, pretty common around here.
IIRC it was translated for portuguese because the brazilian government is promoting Free Software and contracts in english are not valid in Brazil.
Google link here
I think there are two approaches for that, one I call "social" and another that's technical
The first uses statistics about how is the computer configuration of the possible consumers and try to make the software to fit that configurations (like reducing some default features) or just pretend it fit that minimum configuration (as we see on some OS boxes).
The other is testing the software against real machines configurations until the tester think it's fine playable.
But they don't say in what software environment they test it, so you may go to M$ Woe 98 (ram), configure the game to 320x240 16bit (onboard gpu) and still play it fine.
I used to believe that minimum requirements was the minimum you need to install a software until I saw a 486 16MB running Woe 98 (it took about two minutes just to show up the MS windows logo but it booted).
Another probably answer of why they don't, sell with Linux but with FreeDOS is that they need to offer little support or none at all.
If you sell a computer with a software you need to support both, and supporting FreeDOS is much easier than Linux
I think that most of that computers will run MSWindows by companies that already have a windows license for their current computers and plan to trow their computers away.
I've seen that: a company bougth 50 computers that came with XP and installed W2K on it